Re: [PLUG] Web developer job opening

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 11:16  AM, Jeffrey J. Nonken wrote:
> Seems to me I recently read an article or short note regarding
> software engineers in Texas. Apparently the TX government is being
> hostile towards people claiming to be software engineers despite not
> having passed Texas' certifications; looks like TX actually requires
> their engineers to be certified. Unfortunately, while they're
> threatening prosecution of non-certified software engineers, they
> aren't offering a certification process for software engineers.

This has to do with fees payed to the government to allow you to work.

These are historically called "licenses" but are a means for the 
government to collect fees and for various occupations to restrict 
access to that occupation.

The most common version of this is the Driver's License.

Then there are Doctors and Lawyers and "Professional Engineers." PEs 
are normally required to sign off on almost every kind of "engineering 
drawing" there is if it involves any kind of "construction," except for 
telephones.

The "story" is that these licenses "protect" the public from 
"unqualified" practitioners.

Here in Pennsylvania, we simply have the "occupation tax" in many 
communities. In those, Philadelphia is not one, you have to pay a "tax" 
so that you can work.

It is really an ugly business that has nothing to do with "protecting" 
the public.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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